I'm having a great time setting up my Puppy Linux, it really does just work. I quickly got Truetype fonts working in Mozilla and that's looking fantastic thanks to the info on this forum.
I'm glad to see that this .chm reader also works very easily.
But I would like to know how I can improve the appearance of the fonts that displaychm uses.
On my laptop displaychm text looks very jagged and I'm not clear how displaychm is producing its text so that I can change the settings.
I had a look at xchm but that requires wxwidgets libraries.
Any advice gratefully received.

I packaged it so, that everything is installed to /usr/local/XCHM, also wxWidgets 2.6, to avoid conflicts with other programs.
wxWidgets is a bit larger than it needs to be, because I included all libs, in case someone needs them for another program.
The XCHM-script shows, how to use these libs for other programs.

Thank you so much for the software. It works perfectly, images and all.
You're right, the fonts do look very nice indeed. I think it should be added to the dotpup archive.
I could do with learning how to put them together myself too.
I'm more impressed by this OS and the forum every day.

I have spent some time looking for the chm file reader for puppy, even I want to hop to another distribution, because I think the package manager is not so convennient like other distro, your work
stops me, really thanks

Chmdisplay was probably missing some dependencies - if you still have it installed, what happens if you open a terminal window (rxvt, or whatever else you might have) and start it from there?

The Firefox extension (wait, wasn't there more than one? I don't remember...) probably hasn't been updated in a long time. You can try the 'make compatible' features of extensions like MR Tech Toolkit or Nightly Tester Tools (to bump the version compatibility number in the extension installer and trick FF into allowing it), or turn off Firefox's extension compatibility checking. That's no guarantee the extension will work properly, unfortunately. (Firefox could've simply changed too much for it to work since the extension was last updated, which could be why the extension author hasn't updated it. Who knows? )_________________[ Puppy 4.3.1 JP, Frugal install | 1GB RAM | 1.3GB swap ] * My Pidgin Builds for Puppy 4.3.1+
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CHM is also one of the formats supported by the open source FBReader program, which displays ePub, Mobipocket, Plucker, and other ebook file formats. I use it for ePub, Mobi, and Plucker files. I haven't tried it on CHM files, and can't say from experience how good a job it does.

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